New check-and-remove option added for Alerts and Favorites management to allow faster and multiple removals per action.

Arial is now the default font replacing Verdana for a tighter layout and improved readability across all platforms. Users can change their story reading mode to ‘Verdana’ mode via the text style toggles.

Story links now respect the :visited css property to alert users which stories they have already visited.

Increased font size for those with high-resolution monitors (1400 pixel width and higher). Ultra high-resolution screens have very small pixel size translating to smaller texts and this change should improve readability for these users.

Slightly darker blue colors for all links to reduce eye-strain for those that stay on the site for hours at a time.

Darker horizontal rules (separators).

Cleaner look for the story content/chapters management page.

Fixed

Image manager pop-up selection out of alignment on some browsers.

Fixed Alerts and Favorites management for those with monster 10K+ plus entries.

Notes

Sorting within Alerts/Favorites management will return in a different form in the next scheduled update.

New Time Range Sort option: There is now a time range filter based on either Update or Publish Date and ranges from 24 hours, 1 week, 1 month, 6 months, 1 year, to the default “All Time”. The time range filter is designed to enhance and complement other filters for larger categories where even filtered results can be in the hundreds of thousands.

Image covers activated for the public pages of Communities (C2s).

New Published Date Sort option for Communities.

Misc minor improvements all around.

We got a lot of great feedback for our last blog post on new sorting options. Sometimes when we introduce a new feature, it may be designed for a certain group of users. In this case, the sorting options are designed for and much requested by readers. Giving readers more choices is always a good thing for the authors in the long run.